President Donald Trump made his case for more border security in a nationally televised address on Tuesday night, as a stalemate over money for that wall kept the government partially shut down for almost its third week.

Here's a look at today's shutdown news:

Negotiating doesn't go well

"This situation could be solved in a 45-minute meeting," Trump said in his address on Tuesday night.

That didn't happen at the White House on Wednesday afternoon. The president "stormed out" of a meeting with Congressional leaders after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she wouldn't fund a border wall, the New York Times reported, and in an earlier meeting with Republicans, Trump sought to rally support for the shutdown.

President argues there's a crisis at the border

In his speech, President Trump portrayed danger to American citizens from criminals and drugs coming over the border and spoke of a "growing humanitarian and security crisis at the border," and said he was determined to end a "cycle of human suffering" endured by would-be immigrants.

Democrats say the president is twisting the facts

In their response, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the president was appealing to "fear, not facts," as Schumer put it.

Pelosi pointed to Democrats' willingness to reopen the government without funding for a border wall, and said, "Sadly, much of what we have heard from President Trump throughout this senseless shutdown has been full of misinformation and even malice."

Does the president need Congress?

The president has mulled using national security as a justification for funding the border wall without congressional approval, as Politico reports. It's the same strategy he used earlier when he restricted travel from some Muslim-majority nations, Politico noted, and in his trade war when the administration portrayed steel imports as a threat.

More lawmakers say they'll give up pay

A growing number of lawmakers are pledging to forgo their pay in solidarity with federal workers. CNN reports 64 members of Congress are either asking to have their pay withheld or saying they'll donate it to charity.